Over the long term, through diverse market conditions, an allocation to alternative investments can help improve the risk and return versus a traditional portfolio of stocks and bonds.
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Alternative Investments Strategies
Your J.P. Morgan Wealth Advisor can provide access to a carefully curated set of high-conviction alternative investment strategies that can complement your traditional investment approach.
Alternative investments can be challenging, requiring an in-depth understanding to gauge the risks and identify potential opportunities, making them more suitable for sophisticated and experienced investors.
The primary roles alternatives play in a portfolio
With the markets delivering modest returns, alternative investments may serve as alternate sources to potentially generate above market returns for your portfolio.
Not all U.S. companies are public. Alternative investment strategies can help you expand the opportunity set of your portfolio by offering you the ability to invest in a broader set of firms.
J.P. Morgan undertakes a robust fund due diligence and manager selection process to identify strategies that can help you enhance your portfolio. We offer exclusive opportunities and attractive investment minimums, giving you more opportunities to invest towards your goals using alternative investments.
Access to J.P. Morgan's alternative investment strategies
Our reputation attracts both major industry players and newer, smaller alternative investment managers. We have long standing relationships with financial sponsors and private funds worldwide, allowing us to offer opportunities attractive investment minimums.
Private Equity
Expand your opportunity set and potentially enhance returns with investments in companies that are not publicly listed.
Private Credit
Generate income and seek out potentially higher yields with loans and bonds issued as private offerings, directly to the borrower.
Real Assets
Diversify sources of return and potentially hedge against inflation with investments in physical properties and infrastructure around the globe.
Hedge Funds
Tap into a wide range of strategies and securities that may offer potential for uncorrelated return streams and improved risk-adjusted returns.
Adding alternatives to your portfolio
The appropriate amount to allocate will depend on several factors, including your investment objectives, the size of any existing allocation to alternatives, your time horizon, and your tolerance for the lower liquidity of alternatives relative to traditional assets.
Reducing Volatility
Chart shows alternatives allocation expanding and equities allocation reducing to possibly help reduce volatility.
Enhancing Overall Returns
Chart shows alternatives allocation expanding while fixed income and equities allocation is reduced to possibly help enhance portfolio returns.
Increasing Portfolio Yield
Chart shows alternatives allocation expanding and fixed income allocation reducing to possibly help increase portfolio yield.
An experienced global team
J.P. Morgan harnesses the knowledge and experience of our global team to carefully curate a set of high conviction investment strategies designed to help you reach your goals.
Alternative investments are a core part of our clients portfolios and a key focus of the firm. Our deep history in the alternative investment space has helped us also build a unique network of relationships. These relationships offer us the unique ability to develop informed leads and first-look access to new opportunities. The result is sourcing investments that give our clients opportunities that may be unavailable at other firms.
Meet the team
Kristin Kallergis Rowland
Global Head of Alternative Investments
Sean Flynn
Head of Alternatives for Wealth Management
Sean Cribben
Head of Investment Solutions
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Frequently Asked Questions
Alternative investments, or commonly referred as alternative assets, is an investment in either a tangible or financial asset primarily within private markets, excluding traditional investments such as stocks, bonds and cash.
They are generally comprised of private equity, real assets, private credit, and hedge funds. They are commonly known as active, return-seeking strategies that have varied risk profiles and differs from traditional long-only investments.
Alternative investments can help you grow your wealth, diversify your portfolio and potentially uncover non-traditional returns in a low yield market. The “traditional” mix of stocks and bonds may no longer provide the returns investors need to reach their goals, causing alternative investments to go from optional to potentially essential portfolio building blocks. Depending on your goals, your J.P. Morgan Wealth Advisor can help you get started with alternative investing.
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There can be no assurance that any or all of the members of the Alternative Investments Group will remain with the firm or that past performance or success of any such professional serves as an indicator of the Fund s success. Members of certain teams noted above provide services to multiple teams, including the Alternative Investments group. The organizational construct above is for illustrative purposes and is subject to change. Organization depicted is as of November 2023.
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Based upon assets under supervision as of October 2023. Includes non-discretionary investments administered by J.P. Morgan Private Investments Inc.
Investing in alternative assets involves higher risks than traditional investments and is suitable only for sophisticated investors. Alternative investments involve greater risks than traditional investments and should not be deemed a complete investment program. They are not tax efficient and an investor should consult with his/her tax advisor prior to investing. Alternative investments have higher fees than traditional investments and they may also be highly leveraged and engage in speculative investment techniques, which can magnify the potential for investment loss or gain. The value of the investment may fall as well as rise and investors may get back less than they invested.
Borrowing with securities as collateral involves certain risks, including the possibility that you may need to deposit additional securities and/or cash in the account to meet a maintenance call, and that securities in the account may be sold to meet the maintenance call. Proper management of your account and a thorough understanding of the conditions that may affect your investments will assist you in effectively using the margin lending program.
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